#2 Women Are Sex Machines

And here’s where feminists become those raging, emotional lunatics men love to laugh at (because, honestly, they don’t know how else to respond except to, of course, maintain eye contact and slowly back away). Clothes used to make the woman. Then, breasts became objects of repression, so we decided to …flash them all over the place.

Lest I walk into the territory of the Toronto Police, I’ll simply tell the analogous story of a gay man I know who feels reclaiming the word “fag” somehow empowers the gay rights movement. The idea being that by taking on the negative terminology, you’re claiming power over its use, much akin to the N-word controversially being popularized among African Americans. Picking up on this trend, women of all sexualities have elected to embrace the term “slut,” insinuating that no matter what a woman does or doesn’t wear, she doesn’t deserve to be sexually assaulted.

Of course, they could have easily stated, “Nothing justifies sexual assault,” but that’s not as catchy as “Slut” now, is it? And, quite frankly, the term isn’t that far off the mark. When pop culture rewards women who star in sex tapes, like “fierce female entrepreneur” Kim Kardashian, with their own prime-time television shows, not only is there nothing wrong with being a Slut. In fact, it has actually become a viable, financially rewarding career option. (I guess poor Fantine dreamed a dream a few centuries too soon.)

I never quite understood how you "empowered" yourself by becoming exactly what the so-called patriarchal power structure wanted you to be - an easy, discardable sex object they had no continuing obligation to once they had used you for their own pleasure. Maybe I'm just too repressed by my happy married life with to understand.

My mom always had freshly baked cookies, fresh squeezed lemonade, dinner ready for Dad when he came home from work, time to help us with homework or take us to the park. She put those 50's sitcom moms to shame. And she enjoyed doing it. And my grandmother was twice my mom. If you happened to walk through her yard, my grandmother would make you wait on the porch while she cooked you something. There were always a postman or meter-reader or policeman or somebody at her table. If someone robbed her house, she would have gotten up to cook the robbers a meal. She was always genuinely happy and genuinely interested in you. She was just a housewife, but 1500 people showed up for her funeral.

Women are to blame if you're looking for someone to blame. Women like Marcia Clark and the O.J.Simpson jury, the wife of the marathon bomber, the 60+ % that voterd for Obama, Sandra Fluke, Nancy Pelosi. The fact that is too impolitic to mention and too unflattering to acknowledge (and every trial attorney knows) is that women, as a demographic, are irrational.

Stereotypes #4 and #5 are the kinds that gain traction because, lets face it, there's a kernel of truth there. 9 out of 10 husbands will admit (in private, away from social punishment) that their wife is hyper-emotional. It's this secret belief that allows the "stereotype" to gain traction - as in "WOW, somebody's actually nodding to the 'elephant in the room' - I'm going to keep watching this!" The bottom line is - if there wasn't a kernel of truth, these depictions would fade away and be forgotten.

Stereotypes #1-#3 aren't, in my opinion, stereotypes at all. They're cultural propaganda designed to encourage (or discourage) certail social behaviors. Perfect WivesMothers means (in my male-centric view) that WivesMothers are immune from criticism. "Women domanatrix" means that women SHOULD be domanatixes(?), I presume to keep the "patriarchy" subjugated. Women as sex machines goes to feminism's ongoing confusion as to how best to achieve a world where women get to indulge their every whim and men exist only to serve women's whims.

The Kardashians are high-buck courtesans just as in fabled Hindoostan. Except they don't write or recite poetry or have any other measurable talents beyond T and A and complaining. That works fine cuz their clients are little more than well-dressed hillbillies.